SCARABOCCHIO ERGO SUM

...a foolish graphic diary by theHand

drawings: theHand
textes: Maurizio Di Bona
preface of Massimo Caviglia

Collection of textes, drawings, various notes and scribbles from last three years, for a total of 118 pages.

Prologue
I woke up in the morning (this one) and I've found...
the idea I was looking for shaping the book you had the daring, the kindness and also the courage of buying, or that you're checking standing up in the bookstore like flamingos, that have to oscillate each time and change theyr supporting foot/claw, just till when the only available seat is free again.
Before this morning I had believed that all this "stuff" would have been collocated in three different books, but I've discovered that in the world of ideas all this sort of chaos of drawings, scribbles and what else, is already like packaged in the same book ...so it is!

(clic on picture to enlarge and see some other page of book)

After all I'm not an archivist and I'm not requested for systematic systematizations or clear ordered sequence that obbey at alphabet and scale of dimensions or genress. And even if I tried in past, I'm not a geometric architect, and less than it an architectural geometer, that have to referr continuosly at calculations or numbers or counts or perpendicularities or elements of continuity.
So why to care about laws of physica and of genress when it's possible to zig-zag and create obliquos buildings like this! I don't selct, don't discriminate, don't focus, don't separate.
I comics!



 
 

WHO'S AFRAID OF GIORDANO BRUNO

"an insight into the book about the Nolan which should never have been written and drawn"

drawings by theHand
textes by Maurizio Di Bona
preface of Giuliano Montaldo

from chapter.I
When I've decided, five years ago, to write, or better, to draw, a book on Giordano Bruno, I was neither touched for one second by the doubt that then, instead to tale with pictures the philosophy and the adventurous life of the Nolan, I'ld be strict to tale, the personal misadventures in giving birth and nourishing that project.
To be sincere, some signals from uncosciousness, have come up in the darkness of dreams and in those dimensions with no time, in which sometimes, many ofus discover themselves, without knowing well how they have arrived...
But I looked at and went on with no caring of...


If I look back with a fast sight at the works of Ours, at the big bulk of biographic stuff taken everywhere and at mountain of drawings and scribbles pressed in any corner of the room, I neither know more if book I had (still have) in my head, will have the chance to see the light and to be completed, so that you can handle in your hands one day... or give to the fire like emergent inquisitors.
Reasons of this stop or changement of intentions, like could be said, are a lot, I neither want describe some of them on these pages. The only refreshing them disturb me.

 


 
 

SCARABOCCHIO ERGO SUM 2

...graphic revenges of theHand

drawings: theHand
textes: Maurizio Di Bona
preface of Oliviero Toscani

Second part of caotic gallery of caricatures, satirical strips and other stuff, come out from previous lucky and successfull chapter. It include the collection of eretical strips (Ereticomix) and english translation of all contents. di 224 pagg in b/n.
(selfproduced)